Welcome to the Release Preview Windows Store. In this post, we’ll describe a few of the improvements we’ve made to the user experience. We’ll also touch on a few updates that we've made to our app certification policy, in an effort to ensure guidelines and expectations remain clear. And, of course, we...

We previewed the Windows Store and announced our Windows 8 First Apps Contest for Metro style apps on December 6 th . You may recall we issued a challenge to developers to be among the very first to be featured in the Windows Store. Under tight deadlines, and limited only by their own imagination and...

In previous posts, we’ve talked about the unprecedented opportunity the Windows Store presents for developers, and all the ways customers can discover apps from within the Windows Store . We know that customers also look for apps via the web. In this post, Russell Wolf, a program manager on the Store...

We've had the opportunity to demo aspects of the Store experience at a few recent events—at our //build/ conference, at the Store Preview event , and then just last week at CES. We thought it would be helpful at this point to describe the full Store customer experience for browsing and searching the...